July 13, 2017 Thursday

7:00 PM

A chilling thriller that follows a rookie FBI agent who teams up with a local game tracker with deep community ties and a haunted past to investigate the murder of a local girl on a remote Native American.

Opening Night Film WIND RIVER and Reception

Last year, we brought you "Hell or High Water" (along with special guest Gil Birmingham). This year, we're pleased to open this year's festival with the final installment of filmmaker Taylor Sheridan's Frontier trilogy, WIND RIVER. It's a chilling thriller that follows a rookie FBI agent (Elizabeth Olsen) who teams up with a local game tracker with deep community ties and a haunted past (Jeremy Renner) to investigate the murder of a local girl on a remote Native American Reservation in the hopes of solving her mysterious death.
BONUS: Actor Tokala Clifford will be in attendance! He will be answering questions and participating in a discussion with our friends at the Eiteljorg Museum of the film's Native American themes immediately following the film before our Opening Night Reception.

Other Films in this Program

7:00 PM

The spiritual journey of a 90 year old atheist, played by Harry Dean Stanton, and the quirky characters that inhabit his off the map desert town.

Awards Night Film LUCKY and Party

Harry Dean Stanton and David Lynch?!?!? Bingo. Let's party! LUCKY follows the spiritual journey of a 90 year old atheist, played by Harry Dean Stanton, and the quirky characters that inhabit his off the map desert town. Having outlived and outsmoked all of his contemporaries, the fiercely independent Lucky finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self-exploration, leading towards that which is so often unattainable: enlightenment.

6:30 PM

What kind of film could you create if you were given 48 hours, a character, a prop, and a single line of dialouge? And who would be crazy enough to take on the task? Come find out as we screen films from this year's 48 Hour Film Project.
Teams screening during this block:
Buffoonery Films - Sync or Swim
Faded Fisticuffs - Indemnify
Herbert Brothers - The Fourth Degree
In Cahoots - The Plumber
Introverse Productions - Some Things Don’t Wash Out
JELCC - Filicide
Open Eye Productions - Fitting In
Outtatime Films - Love, Mom
Team Number 1 - Tom’s Big Day
The Collective Brain - The Tornado
Thomas Films - Madigan
Ton Rehtar - Chronesthesia

6:30 PM

What kind of film could you create if you were given 48 hours, a character, a prop, and a single line of dialouge? And who would be crazy enough to take on the task? Come find out as we screen films from this year's 48 Hour Film Project.
We will announce the award winners following the screening of these films:
Amateur Hour Productions - Fresh Start
Blue September Films - Rusty Pipes
caMEMEra crew - The Final Plunge
Disturb the Production - Scratch
FairCreekFilms - Synesthesia
Manmauji Films - The Detour
MUTT - Small Beans
RaaenFilms - Social Roulette
Short Bus Talking Pictures - Plumber’s Apprentice
Team 13 - Vicious Plunge
Team Dharma - Knock Knock
The Randoms - UnRefined.
WeRoll4Reelz - Loose Ends

11:30 AM

This is our juried award winning short and feature that qualify for our Hoosier Lens recognition.
NEW NEIGHBORS was also nominated for the Year of Vonnegut Common Decency Award, along with the third short included in this block, LITTLE WARRIORS.

In this Program

2:15 PM

Each of these award winning 48 Hour Film Project films will be shown once:
First Place Overall: Sync or Swim (Buffoonery Films)
Second Place Overall: Knock Knock (Team Dharma)
Third Place Overall: The Tornado (The Collective Brain)
Audience Award, Group B: Social Roulette (Raaen Films)
Audience Award, Group A: The Tornado (The Collective Brain)
Best Acting (ensemble): The Tornado (The Collective Brain)
Best Actor (individual): Andrea Taylor, Sync or Swim (Buffoonery Films)
Best Cinematography: Knock Knock (Team Dharma)
Best Costumes: Sync or Swim (Buffoonery Films)
Best Directing: Vicious Plunge (Team 13)
Best Sound Design: Fitting In (Open Eye Productions)
Best Special Effects: The Tornado (The Collective Brain)
Best Writing: The Fourth Degree (Herbert Brothers)
Best Use of Character: TOM’s Big Day (Team Number 1)
Best Use of Line of Dialogue: Some Things Don’t Wash Out (Introverse Productions)
Best Use of Prop: Some Things Don’t Wash Out (Introverse Productions)